1. 회원 여러분의 건승을 기원합니다.

 

2. 서울대학교에서 <Technocultures of Futurity in East Asia: Infrastructures, Imaginaries, Governmentality> 행사를 개최합니다. 이에 다음과 같이 안내해 드리니, 관심 있는 회원님들의 많은 참여 바랍니다.

 

- 다 음 -

 

■ 주제

- Technocultures of Futurity in East Asia: Infrastructures, Imaginaries, Governmentality

 

■ Symposium Chair

- June Jeon (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

■ 토론자

- Yeran Kim (Kwangwoon University)

- Yusung Kim (Seoul National University)

- HaeRan Shin (Seoul National University)

 

■ 일시

- 2026년 11월 27일(금) 13:30 ~ 17:40

 

■ 장소

- 서울대학교 IBK커뮤니케이션센터 64동 201호

 

■ 주최

- 서울대학교 언론정보학과

- 서울대학교 언론정보연구소

- BK21 FOUR 자유롭고 책임있는 AI 미디어 교육연구단

 

■ 접수방법

- 온라인 접수(https://forms.gle/4qYxrSgYhccEGTey6)

 

■ 접수 방법

- 온라인 접수(www.kiei.com)

 

■ 발표자 약력

- Bohyeong Kim (Vanderbilt University)

· Presentation title: Exceptional Technology, Appified Finance: South Korea’s Kakao Pay

Bio: Bohyeong Kim is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea (University of Michigan Press, 2025). Her research focuses on the relationship between media, culture, and the capitalist economy. Her work has appeared in Cultural Studies, Journal of Cultural Economy, Media, Culture & Society, Korean Journal of Communication, Television & New Media, among other journals. She is currently working on another book-length project about South Korea’s platform capitalism and the tech-media-finance conglomerate Kakao.

 

- Keiko Nishimura (Waseda University)

· Presentation title: Useless, but Stays Close: Character, Animation, and the Cultural Processes of Robotic Solutionism in Japan

Bio: Keiko Nishimura is Assistant Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies, Faculty of International Research and Education, and the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University. She received her Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the intersection of popular culture and technology in postwar and contemporary Japan, in particular the senses and meanings made of media technologies and the sociality they afford. Her recent interest is in the materialities of media technology. Her works have appeared in Japan Forum and Asiascape: Digital Asia.

 

- Chamee Yang (Seoul National University)

· Presentation title: Why Smart Cities Need a Cultural History

Bio: Chamee Yang is Associate Professor of Communication at Seoul National University. Her research works media history and theory, technocultural studies, and science and technology studies (STS), with a particular focus on the history and politics of “smartness” across Asian and global contexts. Her work examines how technologies become entangled with longstanding concerns around mobility, security, economy, and development, and how seemingly new technological problems are historically and socioculturally constituted. Her research has appeared in Science, Technology, & Human Values, Big Data & Society, International Journal of Communication, among other venues. She is the author of City in a Future Tense: The Making of a Smart City in South Korea (University of California Press, 2026).